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Cholera graveyard
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Cholera Burial Ground, Garden Street / Union Terrace, York, YO24 1ET -
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6:00 am - 8:00 pm
The small patch of land outside the city walls, close to York railway station, was especially acquired in the early 19th century for the burial of close to 200 victims of a plague of cholera.
Attraction Duration
30 mins
Age Range
Suitable for all ages
About Cholera graveyard
The small grassed area, close to York railway station, contains a graveyard without a church and 185 victims of a plague of cholera which struck York in 1832.
Only 20 sandstone memorial stones survive in the cemetery, built on land specially acquired outside the city walls, due to the fear of the disease spreading.
Sadly, this failed to prevent further cases of cholera, not an airborne disease but one spread through contaminated water.
In the 1850s, York-born surgeon John Snow discovered the link between the disease and dirty water while working in London when he identified a water pump as the source of an outbreak in the capital.
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